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Tom Stoppard
July 3, 1937 -
Nationality: English
Category: Dramatist
Subcategory: English Dramatist

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

   

The days of the digital watch are numbered.

   

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

   

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

   

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

   

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

   

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

   

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

   

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

   

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

   

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

   

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

   

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

   

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

   

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